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Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals

The Lancet · May 2021

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A prospective study in Queensland, Australia, that assessed what happened after minimum nurse-to-patient ratios were made law in a group of public hospitals, comparing them with hospitals that did not adopt the policy. It is one of the few evaluations of a staffing mandate in practice and is widely cited in policy discussions on safe staffing.

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McHugh MD, Aiken LH, Sloane DM, Windsor C, Douglas C, Yates P. Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals. The Lancet. 2021;397(10288):1905-1913. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00768-6

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